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Your latest Big East trick shot impresario sure can kick. From a sand pit. In bare feet. While wearing overalls. From the bushes. Through the sprinklers. And a tire swing. Not to mention with a giant cone over his head. And from ...

Happy media days eve. Bill O'Brien's resolve will be tested at Penn State. USC coach Lane Kiffin offered to give advice to O'Brien (for the low, low price of Silas Redd). Businesses are reconsidering their marketing ties with Penn State. Casey ...

USF coach Skip Holtz will try his hand at golf next week, when he participates in the American Century Championship with many other sports and entertainment stars at Lake Tahoe. Holtz will be joined there by several other prominent football coache...

The commitment train rolls on ... Cincinnati picked up a commitment from local offensive lineman Dylan Wiesman, and a linebacker from Utah. The Bearcats also nabbed Florida State transfer Jeff Luc. Desmond Conner of The Hartford Courant checks ...

Another Wednesday, another mailblog. Let's dig in. Ken in Connecticut writes: AA, I know it was only the spring game, BUT how can Chandler Whitmer not be named the starting quarterback for UConn? The stats really speak for themselves. He had a goo...

Madness and "Mad Men." Should be a great weekend. There are a lot of questions for Minnesota as the Gophers begin spring practice Thursday. Linebacker Mike Rallis says competing for a Big Ten title is possible this year. Wisconsin spring practi...

One of the reasons Joe Paterno resisted retirement for so long was because he didn't want to end up like Bear Bryant, who died just a few weeks after hanging up his houndstooth hat at Alabama. But a fate that's possibly worse than death has accomp...

The stories keep trickling out of Columbus about Terrelle Pryor and other Ohio State Buckeyes potentially receiving improper benefits. The latest is a report by Tom Farrey and Justine Gubar of ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that says Pryor and other p...

West Virginia offensive coordinator and head-coach-in-waiting Dana Holgorsen was escorted out of a casino last week after 3 a.m., according to the Charleston Daily Mail. Mountaineers officials say they are investigating what happened. "Athletic di...

For the first time, there will be 17 athletic directors in the same room as the Big East holds its spring meetings next week in Ponte Vedra, Fla. TCU will brings its contingent to the meetings, which include football and basketball coaches, ADs an...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- An American history buff, Bill Stewart lately has been reading David McCullogh's biography of John Adams. "I know how much abuse he took when he was over in France and England," Stewart says. "His own country just ripped him f...

John Marinatto's holiday weekend was anything but relaxing. The Big East is moving its Providence offices on Tuesday morning, and if the big move weren't enough, Marinatto was putting together all the finishing touches on adding TCU to his league ...

UConn coach Randy Edsall announced Thursday that he will hold an annual golf event in honor of the late Jasper Howard. The first Randy Edsall Golf Classic will be held July 18 at the Golf Club of Avon. All proceeds will go toward helping improve t...

West Virginia coach Bill Stewart ran into Jim McMahon this summer at a charity golf outing and got to talking about how he should handle his young starting quarterback, Geno Smith. Stewart mentioned typical coaching tropes like not wanting to turn...

NEWPORT, R.I. -- Some final thoughts from the Big East summer kickoff and media day: It's become a cliche that schools hire the exact opposite guy from the previous one when they have to replace a coach. That couldn't be more true with the three ...

NEWPORT, R.I. -- I had the pleasure of spending time with Cincinnati coach Butch Jones during today's Big East golf outing. Jones doesn't play a lot of golf, but he made two unreal putts, including one that I swear had to go through a clown's mout...